Albany Conservatives bankroll pro-Busch/anti-McEneny ads

Riding into work this morning, we heard the latest radio ad for Republican Assembly candidate and local Tea Party favorite Deborah Bush attacking longtime incumbent Democrat Jack McEneny as a tax-and-spend liberal.

The ad — which started running today on Talk 1300 during the Paul Vandenburgh and Al Roney shows — is paid for by the Albany County Conservative Party.

Busch is the only candidate who’s received such financial support from the Conservatives, said party chairman Richard Stack.

Stack, who in an interview questioned McEneny’s ability to hold a non-public-sector job, said the party will spend about $1,100 on the Busch ads when all is said and done — including an anti-McEneny spot that ran last week.

(We haven’t been able to get audio files of the spots yet, but we’ll post them when we do.) Here they are — first the 30-second version, followed by a 60-second version.

Busch, nurse from Berne who last year ran for county coroner, is running on the Republican, Conservative and independent Taxpayer Party lines.

“She’s way superior to Jack McEneny in terms of being in touch with the people,” Stack said of Busch. “He’s always had a free ride because the Republican party has never been able to put up a candidate of stature.”

Stack said his Friends of Richie Stack committee will begin bankrolling “Vote them out” radio spots targeting all incumbents later this month.

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McEneny may be a well-liked local character with years of public service, but the policies he has supported have been disastrous for New Yorkers and are unsustainable. Regardless of party affiliation and how nice the guy is, it is time for him to go.

It is doubtful this old dog can learn any new tricks to be able to halt and reverse the misery that the average New Yorker is facing.

I wonder just how efective this right wing, tea party, conservative reactionary will be in the Assembly which is, and will be for a very long time, controlled by the Democrats? Quick answer, just about as effective as Jim Tedisco and George Amedore.
Jack is part of the Leadership, alsong with Majority Leader Ron Canestrari from Cohoes. Put whatever spin on it that you wish, but Jack will be much more effective with the new Governor Cuomo than any republican could ever hope to be.

Ms. Busch has a nice, high-energy pitch that sounds pretty good for about 90 seconds, after which you realize that she has nothing to say. The usual jingoistic angry white (wo)man schtick, with no viable solutions for today’s very real problems offered.

I went to see Ms. Busch and a few other Tea Party types at a Liberty Forum meeting earlier this year and was struck by the uniform lack of understanding of the workings of government and of workable solutions to problems (as opposed to loud angry rants about those problems). Unfortunately, that intellectual void translated into empty-headed venal candidates like Ms. Busch, like Warren Redlich, like Carl Paladino- and that’s just in New York. The national landscape for populism with brains is even more barren in other parts of the country.

Donald kudos on your comments but for McNada. He has no solutions, votes against the interests of his disteict so that the ghettocrats can accept him, offers no solutions. But he is a man so it is ok for him to be a cadaver in the assembly. When a woman shows some passion then you become a Paladino.

scarffster, your continual one mindlessness is pitiful. The patronage boat has passed you by, time to let it go.

You still think it is acceptable for people to lose their jobs for simply belonging to the wrong . The next step is actually quite scary. But I’ll keep you in mind when there is another partisan genocide in central africa.

Why is she wearing a sthethescope in her political ad? Gonna listen the the gang of three make deals in the proverbial back room? Or, does this mean that Ms. Bush’s priority will still be her nursing job, if elected to the Assembly?

Let’s remember that McEneny is the guy who puplicly spoke out against the building of the Taj McCall, because it would block his view of the waterfront. I remember thinking that no politician could be that brazen, but there he was. Remember?

I can tell you this-Ms. Busch has not been in touch w/ me. As a prime voter in her district you would think she might have knocked on my door-sent me some information on her campaign. But no. I don’t buy that she’s in touch with the people. After his sit-in this summer, I found a new reason to adore Jack.

ezzykeegan – who are you and why should Busch make a special trip for you? She’ll get to your house after she visits people who are actually interested in voting for someone else. She knows what your house looks like, it has a broken wall in the shape of the Kool-Aid man.

How many candidates have you voted into office who never knocked on you door? Get a clue and get it quick.

don’t forget – Even Hevesi thought the office was too lavish. Good find.